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publishing house founded over ten years ago THE SUNDIAL PRESS has an
established
UK and International customer base. Dedicated to introducing
distinctive
literature to a discerning readership, we both liberate works long out
of print and publish original new work by
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“Sundial is
doing great work, and there’s
more to come . . .” — The Daily Telegraph

Two of Sundial’s supernatural titles were
reviewed by Michael
Dirda
in THE WASHINGTON POST(25 April 2018)

'A
somewhat younger contemporary of Machen, Richmal Crompton — still
revered for
her “Just William” children’s books — was also the author of the scarce
and
much sought-after Mist
and Other Ghost Stories, now
reissued by the Sundial Press.'

'Until From Another
World and Other Ghost Stories(Sundial Press), Timperley’s
work could only
be found in scattered anthologies, even though Roald Dahl chose two of
her
ghostly tales as being among the 14 best in English.Read “Harry”—
about a
little girl’s seemingly imaginary playmate — to see how terrific
Timperley is.'

Rosemary Timperley published over sixty
novels and
successfully authored radio and television scripts for broadcast and
dramatisation. She also contributed several hundred short stories to
magazines
such as Reveille and the London Mystery Selection while
numerous others
regularly featured in the Evening
Standard and the London
Evening News.

Eloquent in a range of genres,
a recurring theme in
Timperley’s work is the supernatural which she employed deftly and
explored
imaginatively. Increasingly, her ghost stories appeared in various
anthologies
eventually leading to her being invited to edit several volumes of the Ghost
Book series.

Long overdue and keenly
anticipated, this is
surprisingly the first single volume anthology of Timperley’s
supernatural short
stories to be published.

Richmal
Crompton (1890-1969)
has always been best known for many entertaining stories about the
mischievous schoolboy
William Brown, widely recognised as one of the most popular fictional
characters in English literature.

Many of
her fifty books for
adults (forty-one novels and nine short story collections) have been
unjustly neglected
in recent years, none more so than MIST (1928), her only collection of
thirteen
occult tales and ghost stories, always a very rare book and virtually
unobtainable for decades.

The author had a life-long
interest in the supernatural, mysticism and reincarnation, which are
all
reflected in these memorable tales, now reprinted for the first time
since
their original publication.

Crompton seems to have felt her William
stories to have been potboilers – boiling 12million
copies in the UK alone – and preferred to be
judged by her books for adults. These included THE HOUSE, a novel about
a
haunted mansion, and a collection of ghost stories called MIST which
went
through a single edition in 1929 and has become impossibly rare on the
second-hand market. Now the small Sundial Press . . . is bringing it
back to
life (Mist and
Other Ghost Stories). — The Daily Telegraph

" . . . a welcome reminder of the golden age of the ghost story." — Peter Bell in A
Ghostly Company (Newsletter 52) Read
the review here
If the content appears over-familiar in 2015, derivative they are not.
. . .
Those presuming her out-of-date should take a second look.—
The Pan Review

Mist and
other stories (1928)
by Richmal Crompton . . . was published last year in a nice (limited)
edition
by Sundial Press, in a series called Sundial Supernatural. I’ve been
aware of
this collection for many years, but it was virtually unobtainable – so
this
reprint is very welcome. — Stuck
in a Book (2016)

“Here
many strange happenings are related and curious viewpoints expressed.
We find the old god Pan playing his part—and pipes—in modern
conditions, and we read of the rather vulgar young Miss who loved
Apollo. There is the mysterious cottage and the gypsy woman, both of
whom had long since passed, the one into ruins and the other into
oblivion; and many other stories of equally startling composition.”

The Sherborne Mural
situated in the Old Market Car Park in the centre of the Town.
End panel featuring Alan Turing - Sherbone schoolboy, computer
scientist and Enigma code breaker.
The mural was mounted in June 2015.

05 February
2019. Sherborne-educated Alan Turing has been
voted the greatest and most influential figure of the 20th Century in
the BBC’s
Icons series. Whilst he features on a mural in the town there really
should be
a statue to acknowledge his genius and far-reaching influence on all
our lives.